Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga: Verse 18
नैव तस्य कृतेनार्थो नाकृतेनेह कश्चन ।
न चास्य सर्वभूतेषु कश्चिदर्थव्यपाश्रय: ।।
naiva tasya kṛtenārtho nākṛteneha kaścana
na cāsya sarva-bhūteṣu kaścid-artha-vyapāśraya: – 3.18
There is nothing for him (the Knower) to gain by doing or not doing anything. Nor does he have any dependence on all beings in order to gain anything whatsoever.
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga - Verse 18
Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha
Krishna portrays the contentment, fulfilment, overflowing the Knower’s heart. Having no expectation, and hence the resultant constrictions, the Knower does not look for any gain by performing or refraining from any action. Nor does he foster any dependence on the world to acquire anything. Such an abundance fills him fully.
Yet, he lives and moves in the world freely and enrichingly. He does whatever he feels like doing, whereby those around get benefited and elevated. When the Knower thinks, feels or does anything, it will always be exceedingly benign and benevolent!
His life is for lokasaṅgraha, aimed at restraining people from their fissiparous tendencies and installing them on the righteous path. His graceful presence and the disseminational life he leads fervently, radiate a natural ease and felicity.
